Quote Originally Posted by Junkyard View Post
Pastes on leather, in a way, turn a strop into a hone. Improper stropping can help create a concave in the blade and round out the tip on the razor with bad technique, add pastes to the strop and it quickens the damage.

IMHO,there is in no need of strop pastes, I do not know when abrasive pastes were invented, but if they were not needed 200 years ago, they are not needed today. The use of pastes may have been made for those who did not have quality hones, the paste served their purpose well and keep up a quality they were happy with. Heck, a lot of people use strops for their pocket knives and such, and they do not own a razor.

This is exactly the type response that we always get on SRP as I said "We" tend to be a "HONE is God" forum and the use of pastes tends to be looked down upon...See the blue section, we use a slightly condescending tone, like using pastes is somehow a bad thing... (no offense intended here Junkyard you were just proving my earlier point)

Although I do tend to agree with the thinking here, I am not quite as convinced as I once was about this line of thinking....

Just for reference the first pastes were used 200+ years ago, it was called ash... and is still rather effective, so is lamp black we just use other things now...

I just started a experimental run on a razor when this thread started ....